Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kinross and West Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Snadden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McN. Snadden won Kinross and Western in 1939 in a by-election from the Duchess of Atholl, who resigned from the Conservative Party and stood as an Independent. A son of the manse, he served in the 1914-18 war and from 1939-40 was Parliam?ntary private secretary to the Under-Secretary for Scotland. An extensive farmer and stock breeder in Perthshire, he has been a champion of the rights of Scottish agriculture.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire

CANDIDATE : Johnston

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. H. Johnston was born in Edinburgh in 1919, and was educated at the Royal High School there and at Edinburgh University. He has been in practice at the Scottish Bar since 1947. He is on the executive of the Scottish Liberal Federation and a past chairman of the Edinburgh Liberal Council. He served with the 51st Highland Division during the last war and was wounded.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Camberwell Dulwich

CANDIDATE : Vernon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. F. Vernon won the seat in 1945. Born in 1882, he became an electrical and aeronautical engineer, and an engineer-lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. in the 1914-18 war. Afterwards he was a squadron-commander in the R.N.A.S. and a major in the R.A.F. Later he was a technical officer at the Air Ministry and assisted Mr. Tom Wintringham in founding the Home Guard School at Osterley Park. He is an organizer and lecturer of the Workers’ Education Association, and is an executive member of the Association of Scientific Workers.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Deptford

CANDIDATE : Miller

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Miller was born in Jamaica in 1924, and on coming to England won a scholarship – to the Royal School of Music, Kensington. Served with the R.A.F. during the last war, and is now employed in the London division of the Central Electricity Authority.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hammersmith North

CANDIDATE : Tomney

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Tomney was born in 1910 and edu-cated at elementary and technical schools. He is as electronic glass-blower, and a branch secretary j of the Municipal and General Workers’Union. Mr. Tomney is also a member of both Watford j Borough Council and the Herts County Council. He joined the Labour Party in 1925 and is a member of the Cooperative movement.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington East

CANDIDATE : Billson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. H. C. Billson, aged 34, was a company secretary before the war, during which he served in the R.N.V.R. and took part in the landings at Dieppe, Sicily, and Salerno. In 1946 he was secretary of the fforde Committee which investigated the cement industry, and has since joined the Colonial Service.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Brixton

CANDIDATE : Foord

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. H. Foord was born at Ewell, Surrey, in 1919, educated at Harrow, and served five years with a family firm of solicitors in the City of London. He was commissioned in Bomber Command and took part in night attacks on Berlin and the Ruhr and on the German battleships at Brest. He was twice mentioned in dispatches. A bachelor, Mr. Foord practises as a solicitor in Westminster.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham West

CANDIDATE : Price

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. A. Price, aged 39, is the son of a builder’s labourer and 1 started life as an office P°y and is partner I ln a firm of paper I merchants. He served I on Lewisham Borough ^ouncil from 1944 to : 1?49, and on the L.C.C. : since 1949, besides being | a school governor and manager. A trained oantone, he has done a great deal of concert work. He is also an anround athlete and likes gardening.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Marylebone

CANDIDATE : Silkin

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Silkin, 26-year-old son of Mr. Lewis Silkin, was educated at Dulwich, the University of Wales, Cambridge, and London University, and is a lawyer. During the war he served with the Royal Navy in the Far East.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stepney

CANDIDATE : Piratin

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Piratin was the first Communist member of Stepney Borough Council, on which he became a ” one-man opposition,” but lost the seat in 1949. He entered Parliament in 1945 as member for Mile End, making, with Mr. W. Gallacher, a Communist Party of two. He is 43 years old.

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